Obituaries
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Local Obituaries for Warner Robins, GA, Houston County & Surrounding Areas

Andrew E. Stone
Sep 13, 2008
Andrew E. Stone, 55, entered into rest on September 13, 2008.Mr. Stone was born on March 2, 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With pride and honor he served his country in the United States Army. He later became a mechanic, working at Robins Air Force Base for over twenty years. A devoted husband, father, grandfather and son he attended Christ Chapel...
Edith Simmons Redmond
Sep 12, 2008
Edith Simmons Redmond, 65, entered into rest on September 12, 2008.Mrs. Redmond was born on June 9, 1943, in Brewton, Alabama. She moved to Warner Robins in 1982 and retired after over twenty years as a civil service at Robins Air Force Base. She was a member of the Centerville Lions Club and a volunteer at Vogel State Park. Her...
Tammy Trammell
Sep 12, 2008
Tammy Trammell, 48, entered into rest Friday, September 12, 2008. Tammy was born on July 14, 1960 in Athens, Georgia. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church. Tammy enjoyed people and loved animals. Her mother, Grace Love Trammell, preceded her in death.Her memory will forever be treasured by her fiancé, George Stokes, Warner Robins; father, Edward Trammell, Gainsville; aunt,...

Walter Mcgee "Giggie" Welch
Sep 12, 2008
Walter McGee Welch, 93, entered into rest on September 12, 2008.Mr. Welch was born on July 26, 1915, in Mount Airy, North Carolina. With pride and honor he served in the U.S. Navy and participated in World War II. He was a retired civil servant from Charleston Naval Shipyard. He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, various...

Tsgt. Charley Roscoe Stephens (Usaf, Ret.)
Sep 12, 2008
Charley Roscoe Stephens, 77, entered into rest on September 12, 2008.Mr. Stephens was born on September 18, 2008, in Ashburn. With pride and honor, he served his country in the U.S. Air Force, during the Korea and Vietnam era, and retired with the rank of Tech Sergeant. He went to work as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service;...

Mary E. Craddock
Sep 12, 2008
Mary E. Craddock, 82, entered into rest September 12, 2008. Mrs. Craddock was born in Jamestown, Alabama, on November 19, 1925. She moved to Warner Robins in 1952 from Rome, Georgia. She was a homemaker and a member of Church of Christ, Corder Road. Her husband, Harold M. Craddock, parents, Lewis J. Gladden and Lola Bell Murphy, son, Samuel R....
Mary Florence Gentry
Sep 11, 2008
Mrs. Mary Florence Crook Gentry, 88, passed from this life into the next on September 11, 2008 at Heart of Georgia Hospice Inpatient Unit in Perry Hospital.Funeral services will be at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, 2008, at McCullough Funeral Home Chapel with interment following in Magnolia Park Cemetery. Dr. Allen Hughes and Reverend Sydney Odom will officiate. Mary...
Dwight Shaffer
Sep 10, 2008
Dwight Shaffer, 70, entered into rest on September 10, 2008.Mr. Shaffer was born on August 7, 1938, in Marion, Ohio. He graduated from Pleasant High School, Ohio, where he participated in basketball, baseball and track. An avid car enthusiast, he was a member of the Marion Fly Wheels Car Club and a trustee at Grace Baptist Church in Marion, Ohio....
Mattie Jean Bell
Sep 9, 2008
Mattie Jean Bell, 62, entered into rest September 9, 2008. Mrs. Bell was born in Starkville, Mississippi, on April 5, 1946. She graduated from Henderson High School in 1964, went on to earn a Bachelor of Science from Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi, then a Masters in Education at Indiana University. She began her career in education in 1984...

Gary D. Kiper
Sep 9, 2008
Gary D. Kiper, 71, entered into rest on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.Mr. Kiper was born on May 8, 1937 in Beaconsfield, Iowa. With pride and honor he served his country in the U. S. Air Force, retiring after twenty –three years of service with the rank of Senior Master Sergeant. A B-52 tail gunner, he participated in the Vietnam Conflict....

Ssgt. Tom Zabel (U.S. Army, Ret.)
Sep 7, 2008
Tom Zabel, 45, entered into rest on September 7, 2008.Mr. Zabel was born on February 18, 1963, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. With pride and honor he served his country in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Staff Sergeant. He was employed at CPR in carpet restoration and was an avid outdoorsman. Family members include his wife, Kristy Layson Zabel, Lizella; parents,...

Msgt. James W. Mealey (Usaf, Ret.)
Sep 5, 2008
James W. Mealey, 59, entered into rest on September 5, 2008.Mr. Mealey was born on January 8, 1949, in San Bernardino, California. With pride and honor, he served his country in the U.S. Air Force as a computer engineer, retiring with the rank of Master Sergeant. He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, the Barbershop Harmony Society,...

Philip R. Fountain
Sep 4, 2008
Philip R. Fountain, 88, passed away on September 4, 2008.Mr. Fountain was born on February 24, 1920, in Richlands, North Carolina. He was an Equipment and Allowance Specialist in the civil service at Robins Air Force Base and a captain in the U.S. Army. After high school, he lived with his Aunt Maxine and Uncle Alvin in Raleigh, North Carolina....

Carl F. Peterman
Sep 2, 2008
Carl F. "Pete" Peterman, 83, went to be with the Lord on September 2, 2008. Mr. Peterman was born on May 7, 1925, in Taylor County, Georgia. With pride and honor he served his country in the U.S. Army; later, he owned and operated Peterman Service Station, the oldest business in Warner Robins. He was a Shriner and a 32nd...

Etsuko Susie Tryggestad
Aug 31, 2008
Susie Tryggestad, 77, entered into rest Sunday, August 31, 2008. Mrs Tryggestad was born on January 15, 1931 in Kagoshima, Japan. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary for thirty years and had managed an MWR Snack Bar on Robins Air Force Base for ten years. Her husband, Gary V. Tryggestad, parents, Toichiro Tanabe and Omori Mitsue, preceded...
Marian Scott Helms
Aug 31, 2008
Marian S. Helms, 91, entered into rest Sunday, August 31, 2008. Mrs. Helms was born in Anderson, South Carolina on April 3, 1917. She was a member of First Baptist Church. She was predeceased by her husband, Gilbert R. Helms, parents, Henry Scott and Allie Broadwell Scott, sisters, Christine Lopez, Mildred Cheek and Pauline Drake. Cherishing her memory are her...

Lucius H. Anderson
Aug 30, 2008
– Lucius Anderson, 89, entered into rest on Saturday, August 30, 2008.Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 3, 2008, at Elam-Millen Cemetery in Millen, Georgia, pastor Randall Smith officiating. Mr. Anderson was born on March 15, 1919, in Collins, Georgia. After graduating from ECI High School in Twin City, Georgia, he proudly served in the...

Ethan Michael Renner
Aug 29, 2008
Precious angel, Ethan Michael Renner, infant son of Dr. Michael John Renner and Stacey Elaine Favre Renner, passed on August 28, 2008, at the Medical Center of Central Georgia.Ethan was born in Macon on August 12, 2008, and is survived by his loving parents; three sisters, Allison, Kristin and Rachel, Warner Robins; brother, Nathan, Warner Robins; grandparents, Terry Lees, Warner...

Kent Mitchell Irelan
Aug 28, 2008
Mitch Irelan, 52, entered into rest on August 28, 2008.Mr. Irelan was born on January 25, 1956, in Albany. He was a civil service welder at Robins Air Force Base for more than twenty years. He enjoyed hunting, trapping, working in the woods and cooking. His parents, Keith Irelan and Ester Manning Irelan, preceded him in death.His memory will forever...
Samuel Ellis Privette
Aug 27, 2008
Sam Privette, 78, entered into rest on August 27, 2008. Mr. Privette was born on July 20, 1930, in Spring Hope, North Carolina. With pride and honor he served his country in the U.S. Air Force in electronics, air conditioning, and in Aero-technology for twenty years. Following retirement he continued to serve as a civil servant at Robins Air Force...